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Outline
1. Introduction 2. MIMO and OFDM principles 3. MIMO-OFDM systems 4. Space time techniques 5. Adaptive modulation and coding 6. ICI and PAPR 7. Example of adaptive loading capacity in MIMO-OFDM 8. Summary 9. References and homework
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Introduction
The demand of wireless communications is constantly
growing Future wireless systems will require a much more efficient use of the available frequency resources MIMO is known to boost channel capacity For high-data rate transmissions, the MIMO channel is frequency selective (multipath) OFDM can transform such channel into a set of parallel frequency-flat channels (reduce Rx complexity) Attractive combination of these two powerful techniques
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MIMO Systems
Equipped with multiple antennas at Tx and Rx Take advantage of the spatial diversity obtained by spatially separated antennas in a dense multipath scattering environment Allows to apply signal processing techniques in transmission and reception to:
Enhance the quality of the communication (diversity) Increase the throughput of the system (multiplexing)
Provide better performance without additional radio spectrum requirements (scarce and expensive resource)
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Origins of MIMO
Before 1990s, antenna arrays were used to provide
diversity and/or direct the signal reception to mitigate cochannel interference This motivated the development of following techniques:
Beamforming: Focus electromagnetic energy in desired directions Spatial diversity: Combination of signals in an antenna array, equipped with low correlation elements
A single data stream is transmitted, and multiple antennas are used to decrease the variance of the received signal (i.e., improve the quality of the radio link)
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Origins of MIMO
In the mid 1990s, it has been observed that the use of multiple receive antennas allows to separate out the signals from the different transmit antennas In this case, multiple transceiver antennas are used for parallel multiplexing (i.e., transmit several data streams simultaneously to increase peak data rates) This concept is much more impressive than diversity in terms of channel capacity, because with parallel multiplexing, the capacity increases linearly with the minimum number of transmit and receive antennas This holds provided that the scattering environment is rich enough to allow the separation of transmission signals in Rx
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OFDM Concepts
Popular technique for transmission of signals over wireless channels OFDM has been adopted in several wireless standards, such as DAB, DVB-T, IEEE 802.11a (LAN) and IEEE 802.16a (LAN/MAN) Converts a frequency-selective channel into a parallel collection of frequency-flat subchannels Subcarriers have minimum frequency separation required to maintain orthogonally of their time domain waveforms
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OFDM Concepts
Signal spectra of the different subcarriers overlap in frequency (efficient use of available bandwidth) The Tx can adapt its signaling to match the channel if knowledge of channel condition is available at Tx Adaptive strategies in OFDM can approach waterpouring capacity of frequency-selective channels (large collection of narrowly spaced subchannels) In practice this is achieved by using adaptive bit loading techniques (different sized constellations per subcarrier)
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OFDM Concepts
A block of N information symbols is transmitted in parallel on N subcarriers Time duration of an OFDM symbol is N times larger than that that would correspond to a single-carrier system OFDM modulator can be implemented as an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) followed by an DAC Each block of N IFFT coefficients is preceded by a cyclic prefix (CP) to mitigate ISI caused by channel time spread The receiver can use fast signaling processing transforms such as FFT for OFDM implementations
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MIMO-OFDM System
MIMO-OFDM Tx
MIMO-OFDM Rx
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MIMO-OFDM Tx
Source bitstream encoded by FEC encoder Coded bitstream mapped to a constellation by digital modulator, and encoded by MIMO encoder Each of parallel output symbol stream corresponding to a certain Tx antenna follows the same Tx process: Insertion of pilot symbols (synchronization) Modulation by inverse FFT Attachment of CP and Preamble Finally, data frame is transferred to IF/RF stage for Tx
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MIMO-OFDM Rx
The received symbol stream from different Rx antennas are fist synchronized
Preambles and CPs are extracted from Rx symbol stream Remaining OFDM symbols demodulated by FFT Frequency pilots are extracted from the demodulated OFDM symbols, and are used for channel estimation Estimated channel matrix aids the MIMO decoder Estimated Tx symbols are demodulated and decoded
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Frame
Slot
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Space-Time Techniques
Current space-time processing techniques for MIMO typically fall into two categories:
Data-rate maximization (spatial multiplexing) Diversity maximization (space-time coding)
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Spatial multiplexing S High U Low U S Low U High Insensitive Low Sensitive High U S Tx Rx
Iterative Decoding
Channel coding undoubtedly plays in important role in digital communications systems MIMO-OFDM system decoders will work at low SNR Two kinds of codes are promising candidates for FEC:
Turbo Code: Use parallel concatenation of at least two codes with an interleaver between component encoders. Decoding is based on alternately decoding the component codes and passing extrinsic information to next decoding stage (Shannon Bound @ BER 105) Low Density Parity Check (LDPC): Linear block code whose parity check matrix is composed of 0 elements dominantly. LDPC code shows good error correction capacity with soft iterative decoding by the sum-product algorithm or belief propagation (BP) algorithm
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ICI mitigation is needed to increase the achievable data rates over the wireless medium
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Hi = Ui Si Vi
Ui and Vi are unitary matrices, and Si is a diagonal matrix of singular values of Hi
Simulation parameters:
Number of subcarriers: 64 QAM constellations: 0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 bits per subcarrier
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BER Performance
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Summary
MIMO-OFDM key techniques have been introduced:
Frame structure. Comparison of STC and SM Iterative decoding Adaptive modulation and coding Intercarrier interference cancellation Peak-to-average power ratio
The high bandwidth efficiency obtained shows that MIMOOFDM is a potential candidate for future broadband wireless access
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References
1. H. Yang, A road to future broadband wireless access: MIMO-OFDMBased air interface, IEEE Comm. Mag., vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 53-60, Jan. 2005. 2. P. Bansal and A. Brzezinski, Adaptive Loading in MIMO/OFDM Systems, EEE359 project, Standford University, Dec. 2001. 3. G.L. Stuber, J.R. Barry, S.W. McLaughlin, Ye Li, M.A. Ingram and T.G. Pratt, Broadband MIMO-OFDM wireless communications, IEEE Proc., vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 271-294, Feb. 2004. 4. A.J. Paulraj, D.A. Gore, R.U. Nabar and H. Bolcskei, An overview of MIMO communications - a key to gigabit wireless, IEEE Proc., vol. 92, no. 2, pp. 198-218, Feb. 2004. 5. L. Hanzo, M. Mnster, B.J. Choi and Thomas Keller, OFDM and MCCDMA for Broadband Multi-User Communications, WLANs and Broadcasting, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1014, July 2003.
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Homework
1. What is a MIMO system? Why are they so important in the development of future wireless standards? 2. Why is the combination of MIMO and OFDM techniques so attractive?
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